The US Friday continued airstrikes in Iran while Tehran launched retaliatory attacks on US targets in the Gulf as the region braced itself after President Trump said he was close to deciding whether to launch a massive attack. I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision, Trump told Axios. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the security council that the Middle East was being pushed to the edge of the unimaginable. The situation is getting out of control, Guterres said. The region is being pulled into an ever-widening circle of confrontation. One crisis feeds another. One escalation triggers the next.